Liquid Glass design, Apple Intelligence APIs, and visionOS 26 tools highlight Apple’s 2025 State of the Union for developers.

Apple has yet to deliver on some of the key technology advances that could modernize developers' apps for the AI era.

At their annual showcase event, Apple introduced iOS26 which features a Liquid Glass interface and enhanced AI… Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) 2025 was held on June 10 and the theme of this year’s event was transformation – of the interface as well as the intelligence that powers it.

Follow along with the Gizmodo crew as we unpack everything Apple announces at its annual developer conference in Cupertino, Calif.

Apple's 2026 operating systems will be unified and see a major visual upgrade called the Liquid Glass design language.

Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) 2025 officially kicked off this week. Weeks before the event, market rumors suggested that Apple Intelligence's progress was far behind expectations, leading to low hopes for significant announcements at WWDC.

Users will be able to access the AI models either on device or with Private Compute to generate responses that feed into the rest of their shortcut.

The vibe of the WWDC 2025 announcements felt a little scattered, but definitely more useful than things we heard in recent years.